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BILL NUMBER:S6983

TITLE OF BILL: An act to repeal title 8 of article 15-B of the general municipal law relating to the Mount Kisco urban renewal agency; and to transfer any books, records and remaining rights of the dissolved authority to the village of the Mount Kisco

PURPOSE: This legislation does away with the Mount Kisco urban renewal agency; repealer.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section One - Repeals title 8 of article 15-B of the general municipal law.

Section Two - Transfers any existing records, property, rights, titles and interest of the Mount Kisco urban renewal agency to the village of Mount Kisco.

Section Three - States the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION: This legislation was requested by the Town/Village of Mount Kisco, in an effort to streamline economic development within the village.

The Mount Kisco Urban Renewal Agency is a moribund public authority which has long since achieved its purpose in the 1570s. This bill dissolves that agency, which is no longer actively engaged in the public purpose for which it was established.

Under existing law, the Village Board of Trustees functions as the Urban Renewal Agency, thus adding an additional, unnecessary layer of government for sitting projects. Once a project has Planning Board Approval, the Village Board must take additional action on it.

This additional layer of approval is unnecessary, and this bill is required to repeal the statutory authorization of an authority which is now defunct.

The Mount Kisco Urban Renewal has been determined inactive by the New York State Authorities Budget Office, the Department of Economic Development, the Office of the State Comptroller, and the Commission on Public Authority Reform, based on consultation with the Town/Village of Mount Kisco.

Although the authority no longer functions, its authorization continues in State Law. It has no outstanding debt or other obligations. This bill would repeal various sections of the general municipal law to formally dissolve the authority, and update state law to reflect the fact that this authority, has, as a practical matter, ceased to exist, thus promoting the State's interest in curbing the proliferation of unnecessary authorities.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day.

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STATE OF NEW YORK
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6983
IN SENATE
April 19, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. BALL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to repeal title 8 of article 15-B of the general municipal law
relating to the Mount Kisco urban renewal agency; and to transfer any
books, records and remaining rights of the dissolved authority to the
village of Mount Kisco
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Title 8 of article 15-B of the general municipal law, as
added by chapter 266 of the laws of 1964, is REPEALED.
S 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
existing records, property, rights, titles and interest of the Mount
Kisco urban renewal agency shall vest in and be possessed by the village
of Mount Kisco and its successors or assigns.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13494-02-2

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